“And that’s how they left it. *** But, of course, the war had to come to an end. After Monterrey and Camargo, Buena Vista and Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and Palo Alto, the Mexicans, beaten and weary and just simply tired of the carnage, signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the war ended. The Americans filtered back into Texas and New Mexico. Some were grateful that it had come to an end. Others just went looking for another fight. James Lee Cobb went looking for something, too…he just wasn’t... sure what. 5 Long before the Mexican-American War, the Mexican authorities paid private armies to hunt down and kill marauding tribes of Indians—particularly Apaches and Comanche’s—that were harassing Mexican towns and villages. The Indians would swarm down from the U.S side of the border, killing men, kidnapping women, stealing livestock and horses…in fact, anything they could lay their hands on. The Mexican army simply couldn’t contend with these raiders, so scalp bounty laws were enacted.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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